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Alexandru-Dan Pop • Edited

I'm so happy to have a Redux maintainer comment here! Thanks for the additional references!

I'm glad somebody really stands out and puts such great resources around Redux and how it should be used.

I'm aware of and agree about the Context camparison - that it's not ok. Context is just a dumb provider of storing data in a React Component that is then passing it to anywhere in a React tree. Now to be fair, Redux is also the kind of library that is letting you do most of the work, and it is just imposing some simple rules.

Probably I did not make this article a lot of justice not stating the many anti-patterns or ugly things that can be created using the Context API - as having the tens or hundreds of context providers in your app :).